Tag: books
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Most papers should be blog posts
“Most books should be papers, most papers should be blog posts, most blog posts should be tweets, and most tweets should be answers given in long-form interviews.” Robert Wiblin (2021)
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Resources for learning about AI
A few weeks ago someone asked me to point them towards a few resources they could use to learn about AI. I got a bit carried away, coming up with a few more than a few. I thought I’d share here as well. Note: I subscribe to many more podcasts, newsletters, and RSS feeds, some…
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Poem: If librarians were honest
in ReadingBy Joseph Mills If librarians were honest,they wouldn’t smile, or actwelcoming. They would say,You need to be careful. Herebe monsters. They would say,These rooms house heathensand heretics, murderers andmaniacs, the deluded, desperate,and dissolute. They would say,These books contain knowledgeof death, desire, and decay,betrayal, blood, and more blood;each is a Pandora’s box, so whywould you want…
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Link: Realistic bookshelf murals on buildings in the Netherlands
https://mossandfog.com/hyperrealistic-bookshelf-murals-in-the-netherlands/
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Link: Mesmerizing Bookstore Feels Like Walking Into an Escher Drawing
https://mossandfog.com/mesmerizing-bookstore-feels-like-walking-into-an-escher-drawing
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Link: Should your publications be web books?
https://electricbookworks.com/thinking/publishing-websites-for-impact/ This is such a great post from Arthur Atwell at Electric Book Works. I have so many thoughts on how I want to use these ideas, but the main one is that all of our teaching materials should be web-first. I’ve captured the list, but you really should read the full post by Arthur.
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A handy guide for dealing with books you don’t like
A step-by-step guide to help you decide how to deal with a book you don’t like. Via Dave Nicholls at his Paradoxa substack.
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Resource: Open Syllabus Galaxy
Open Syllabus Galaxy is a visualisation representing more than a million of most frequently assigned texts in the Open Syllabus corpus, a database of almost 8 million university syllabi.
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What does it mean to be a book?
Recently I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a book. What makes a book, a “book”? I’m willing to bet that when you see the word “book” you think of a physical container for words that are printed on paper, bound within covers and sits on a bookshelf. Wikipedia agrees with you: A book is a set…
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To err is human: building a safer health system (free book)
While typing up my notes from the SAAHE conference (see previous post), I came across To err is human: building a safer health system, a book that had been mentioned by one of the keynote speakers. It looks at the medical community’s historically poor track record on accepting responsibility for mistakes made by healthcare professionals…
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Textbooks and other resources
I’d like to begin a system of publishing reviews of academic textbooks for physiotherapists and physiotherapy students. This could eventually be expanded to include journal articles, websites and other useful sources of information. Ultimately, I’d like to get the students themselves to take part in this process, informing their own learning through a deeper interaction…